There’s no reason to experiment o cryo patients. Lots of people donate their brains to science. Grab somebody who isn’t expecting to be resurrected, and test your technology on them. Worst case, you wake up somebody who doesn’t want to be alive, and they kill themselves.
Number two is very unlikely. We’re basically talking brain damage, and I’ve never heard of a case of brain damage, no matter how severe, doing that.
As for number three, that shambling horror would not be you in a meaningful sense. You’d just be dead, which is the default case. Also, I have my doubts that they’d even bother to try to resurrect you with that much damage if they didn’t already have a way of patching the gaps in your neurology.
As for number four, depending on the degree of the disability, suicide or euthanasia is probably possible. Besides, I think it’s unlikely they’ll be able to drag you back from being a corpsicle without being able to fix problems like that.
There’s no way not to. It will be a new technology. Somebody has to get reanimated first. Even if we freeze 100 mice to test on, or monkeys, reviving humans will be different. Doing something for the first time is, by it’s very nature, an experiment.
Grab somebody who isn’t expecting to be resurrected
Awful! That’s experimenting on a person against their will, and without their knowledge, even! I sure hope people like you don’t start freezing people like me in the event that I decide against cryo...
I’ve never heard of a case of brain damage, no matter how severe, doing that.
People experience this every day. It’s called chemical depression. Even if you don’t currently see a way for preservation or revival technology to cause this condition, it exists, it’s possible that more than one mechanism may exist to trigger it, and that these technologies may have that as an accidental side-effect.
As for number three, that shambling horror would not be you in a meaningful sense. You’d just be dead, which is the default case.
Uh… no, because I’d be experiencing life, I would just be without what makes me me. That would be horror, not non-existence. So it is not death.
euthanasia is probably possible
Is it now? Most people don’t believe in the right to die. In a world where we had figured out how to reanimate preserved corpses, do you think that they’ll believe in the right to die? They’ll probably automatically save and revive everyone.
Awful! That’s experimenting on a person against their will, and without their knowledge, even! I sure hope people like you don’t start freezing people like me in the event that I decide against cryo...
-shrug- so don’t leave your brain to science. I figure if somebody is prepared to let their brain decompose on a table while first year medical students poke at it, you might as well try to save their life. Provided, of course, the laws wherever you are permit you to put the results down if they’re horrible. Worst case, they’re back where they started.
People experience this every day. It’s called chemical depression. Even if you don’t currently see a way for preservation or revival technology to cause this condition, it exists, it’s possible that more than one mechanism may exist to trigger it, and that these technologies may have that as an accidental side-effect.
Chemical depression is not ‘absolute misery.’ Besides, we know how to treat that now. That we’ll be able to bring you back, but unable to tweak your brain activity a little is not very credible. Worst case, once we have the scan, we can always put it back on ice for another decade or two until we can fix the problem.
Uh… no, because I’d be experiencing life, I would just be without what makes me me. That would be horror, not non-existence. So it is not death.
If I took a bunch of Drexler-class nanotech, took your brain, and restructured its material to be a perfect replica of my brain, that would be murder. You would cease to exist. The person living in your head would be me, not you. If brain damage is adequately severe, then you don’t exist any more. The ‘thing that makes you you’ is necessary to ‘do the experiencing.’
There’s no reason to experiment o cryo patients. Lots of people donate their brains to science. Grab somebody who isn’t expecting to be resurrected, and test your technology on them. Worst case, you wake up somebody who doesn’t want to be alive, and they kill themselves.
Number two is very unlikely. We’re basically talking brain damage, and I’ve never heard of a case of brain damage, no matter how severe, doing that.
As for number three, that shambling horror would not be you in a meaningful sense. You’d just be dead, which is the default case. Also, I have my doubts that they’d even bother to try to resurrect you with that much damage if they didn’t already have a way of patching the gaps in your neurology.
As for number four, depending on the degree of the disability, suicide or euthanasia is probably possible. Besides, I think it’s unlikely they’ll be able to drag you back from being a corpsicle without being able to fix problems like that.
There’s no way not to. It will be a new technology. Somebody has to get reanimated first. Even if we freeze 100 mice to test on, or monkeys, reviving humans will be different. Doing something for the first time is, by it’s very nature, an experiment.
Awful! That’s experimenting on a person against their will, and without their knowledge, even! I sure hope people like you don’t start freezing people like me in the event that I decide against cryo...
People experience this every day. It’s called chemical depression. Even if you don’t currently see a way for preservation or revival technology to cause this condition, it exists, it’s possible that more than one mechanism may exist to trigger it, and that these technologies may have that as an accidental side-effect.
Uh… no, because I’d be experiencing life, I would just be without what makes me me. That would be horror, not non-existence. So it is not death.
Is it now? Most people don’t believe in the right to die. In a world where we had figured out how to reanimate preserved corpses, do you think that they’ll believe in the right to die? They’ll probably automatically save and revive everyone.
-shrug- so don’t leave your brain to science. I figure if somebody is prepared to let their brain decompose on a table while first year medical students poke at it, you might as well try to save their life. Provided, of course, the laws wherever you are permit you to put the results down if they’re horrible. Worst case, they’re back where they started.
Chemical depression is not ‘absolute misery.’ Besides, we know how to treat that now. That we’ll be able to bring you back, but unable to tweak your brain activity a little is not very credible. Worst case, once we have the scan, we can always put it back on ice for another decade or two until we can fix the problem.
If I took a bunch of Drexler-class nanotech, took your brain, and restructured its material to be a perfect replica of my brain, that would be murder. You would cease to exist. The person living in your head would be me, not you. If brain damage is adequately severe, then you don’t exist any more. The ‘thing that makes you you’ is necessary to ‘do the experiencing.’